Re: Laptops which run Arch

Although had a little bit struggling, my Lenovo T420s now works with Arch. The only thing missing now is Nvidia Optinum. It's not that I can't make it work, just I don't think I need to.Intel card is enough for most of the cases and it has a much better battery life.

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HP Pavilion g6-2103axCPU: AMD A6-4400M APU (2.7 GHz)GPU: ATI Radeon HD 7600M (seems to require catalyst driver, screen was blank with open-source one — haven't figured out if it's even possible to enable dynamic switching yet enabled "dynamic" switching, but this requires a restart of X to change card, and a reboot of the system for it to show up with amdcccle, though aticonfig --pxl shows the correct card.)RAM: 4GiB DDR3HDD: 500GB

Wireless worked OOTB (it's an Atheros AR9485 card)Ethernet worked off archiso, haven't tested it on full install, probably works.Mobile broadband off a Huawei dongle works with netcfg, same dongle isn't detected by Windows 7 on this laptop, probably locked down by old laptop.Haven't tested BluetoothHaven't tested card reader

Sound: working

Touchpad: Synaptics, worked OOTBFn keys work fine, but I haven't mapped a few in Openbox yet. Not enough brightness steps by default. Strange conflicts with xfce-panel brightness plugin.

Power management: No major issues, but battery consumption is insanely high. I usually prefer to be plugged into the mains so this isn't a major issue (for me).Suspend: worksHibernate: haven't gotten it to work yet, fglrx complained with an error

Few issues with partitioning on first attempt (I blame Microsoft and HP for that), but almost all is merry now. Dual boots Windows 7 Home Premium and Arch Linux x86-64 (3.5.4-1 ARCH) with pure systemd setup. The display is a little too reflective, but the image quality is quite good.

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Everything works out of the box with this guy. I had some trouble getting WICD working, but netcfg works just fine (and is easier IMO). On Ubuntu 12.04, the wireless didn't work. I'm now getting full 3-antenna N speeds at school anywhere I go. Thank you rolling release.

All the media keys work, backlight, etc. Without any power management software, I'm getting 8-10 hours on a charge with the 9-cell battery.

It boots in ~6 seconds using GRUB2 legacy. I probably could get this down to a couple seconds with systemd + a UEFI boot.

Very highly recommended. And the keyboard feels amazing.

EDIT: after installing TLP scripts from the AUR, my battery is now 12-14 hours. Holy cow.

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Samsung n100s-n01clAll work out-of-the-boxThe only 2 issues are video bit xf86-video-fbdev work (remmember desintall all other xf86-video packages), xf86-video-vesa work and from AUR xf86-video-modesetting work all this in a 64bit sistemthe last one make the external monitor work

the second issue are UEFI implementation that only run --removable and 32bit .efi apps

now I learning how mitigate power consumption and make the best usage and perfomance of this laptop

Almost everything is functional. If you extend the desktop over the screens, then the touchscreens stop working correctly. It's been buggy for a long while but no one has addressed it. When you lift your finger (or do a click),

Also the latest xf86-video-intel causes a segfault when you startx. It's a reported bug. I downgraded to 2.20.8-1, which is fairly stable.

You have to press the button on the left hinge to activate the bottom screen. This sends a ctrl+alt+del, so either disable that in /etc/inittab or wait until X loads to hit the hinge button.

I don't think hdmi output works in the X driver. It seems to corrupt the display and require a reboot. I have not tried VGA as I'm lacking the appropriate cable.

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Lenovo Thinkpad E420s

Core i5-24104GB RAM256GB Crucial M4

Just switched to SystemD from Init and I boot in 6 Seconds vs 10 with Init. Laptop-Mode-Tools + PM-Utils puts battery life into the 7 hour range easily, with Suspend2RAM on lid close battery can last days.

Aside from Wifi everything worked OOTB.

With a KDE Base install and few apps running I use ~300mb of ram, now I just have to figure what to use the rest with

Very content with my switch to Arch and believe I will stay for along time coming!

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@Fall, welcome to the forums. Did you get all your realtek crap working? I have an E430, but I think they are pretty similar. My ethernet card needed r8168, wifi sucked (rtl8192ce), and the card reader needed a driver from the realtek site (though I don't load the module unless I need it, as it is a power suck).

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@ WonderWoofy

Wifi for me works great, My card is a RTL8188CE and I loaded the "rtl8192ce_linux" driver from the official repos, connected to my Uverse and it has worked well since. I have had a few hiccups here and there but overall it has worked good. As for the card reader, I have not loaded that driver yet but when I get my Raspberry Pi in a few days I will and see how it goes. Then Uninstall it after I get my Pi up

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rtl8192ce_linux?

Edit: Just for clarification, are you speaking of the module included in the kernel tree? When you say "from the official repos", it makes me think that you are installing an additional package. Just curious.

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Toshiba Satellite A505-S6960Everything worked perfectly, including the hotkeys (excluding the "eco mode" key).One issue was the wireless signal used to drop a lot in xorg drivers dating back to 2010. I do not know the case now as I no longer use this laptop.

My current laptop:HP Envy 3040nrIssues:1. No true multitouch on the clickpad2. Severe hangups because of sound, requiring the workaround: blacklist snd-usb-audio in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf3. Blacklight is dimmed on boot4. Cannot use the ati graphics card, only the intel card is recognized.5. Beats button does not work (nothing is assigned to it)However, the HD display is fantastic on LinuxAlso, the wireless drivers work beautifully.

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Anyone here have a Toshiba Satellite X200 and are familiar with the internals of it? My friend has one and I was there today to clean it out. Getting to the fans requires pretty much complete disassembly of the entire machine, boy was that fun

Anyway, I noticed there are two mini pci-e ports in the machine. One is occupied by the intel wifi card. There's something in the other port too. And now the reason I'm asking if anyone is familiar with the internals - what is that thing in the other pci-e port?? Here's lspci -v of the machine: http://pastebin.com/99bs69Nf. I don't notice anything out of the ordinary! lsusb shows two devices, the webcam and the fingerprint thingy.

I only played with Linux using a liveusb (the machine has Vista installed on it, ugh), so I couldn't test the fingerprint thingy, but everything else works great. Well, there's something else I didn't test either - the dial-up modem. Yeah, the thing has one of those in it . Can you imagine surfing today's bloated-by-tracking-crap websites on dial-up?

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The open source ATI driver works a lot better than the proprietary on this model.The laptop-mode-tools causes some problems at the shutdown (reboots immediatly).No FN keys by default.No backlight control with xf86-video-ati and xbacklight (Instead of searching an alternative, I made my own script).